Julian Barnes

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.